Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2070: The Politics of Statelessness

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Module Aims

The module will:
1) familiarise you with critical perspectives on the politics of human rights within contemporary political theory;
2) examine the fruitfulness of the concept of the political for understanding the politics of statelessness
3) reflect on the nature of politics and its thematization within different traditions of political thought.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Evaluate what is political (and, potentially, apolitical, unpolitical or anti-political) about human rights; 2. Interpret a human rights issue (broadly understood) in terms of one of the key concepts (e.g. biopolitics or dissensus) discussed on this module;
Discipline-Specific Skills	3. Work with political concepts in order to (re)describe and evaluate political phenomena; 4. Evaluate the relative insightfulness of competing theoretical interpretations of political phenomena;
Personal and Key Skills	5. Design and undertake advanced research; 6. Communicate effectively in speech and writing;

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Formative research proposal	500 words	1-6	Written and or verbal feedback

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Textual analysis	35	1,500 words	1-6	Written Feedback
Essay	65	2,500 words	1-6	Written Feedback
	0
	0
	0
	0

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Textual analysis	Textual analysis (1,500 words)	1-6	Next reassessment period
Essay	Essay (2,500 words)	1-6	Next reassessment period

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Hannah Arendt (1948) The Origins of Totalitarianism. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

Giorgio Agamben (1998) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford University Press.

Jacques Rancière (1998) Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy. University of Minnesota Press.

Michel Foucault (2005) Society Must Be Defended. Penguin

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